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Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELIJAH B. MARTINDALE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

PAVEMENT AND FLOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,321, dated vOctober 9, 1883,

Application tiled June 11,1883. (No model.)

ways, of which, the following is a speciiication.V

My said invention consists in the use of pa per, pasteboard, strawboard, tar-board, or

other blocks 0r boards inadewholly or in part of the material or other like material of which paper, pasteboard, strawboard, or tar-board is or 'may be made, by cutting, cementing, conereting, inolding, and pressing the same into shape for use in paving and tiling, as hereinafter more specifically described.

In the aceonipanyiug drawings, which are made a part hereof, Figure 1 is-a top or plan view of a section. of such pavement as it may be laid, the shape of the blocks and the figure or design being immaterial, the paper or board being so eut and pressed or molded that the edge of the paper will form the surface of the floor or pavement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a block.

Such door or pavement may be made by cementing and pressing together, under very heav;T pressure, many sheets of such paperboard, and, when the blocks thus made are dry and hard, cutting them up into blocks of the required size and laying theni in a cement,

pressing them together, southat the eut edge of `the paper forms the surface of the door or pavement; or the saine may be made by conipressing blocks into shape from paper-pulp mixed with clay and mineral as it comes frein 'the paper-engine, and laying the blocks so made close together in cement, with the edge or grain to the surface. 1Wheresuch pavement is exposed to the Weather' or standing out into blocks, tiles, or plank, and laid with the edge'of the paper forming the surface.

2. A pavement inode of paper, pasteboard, or otherlike material pressed, out, or Worked yinto blocks, and .laid with the edges forming the surface.

3. A floor or pavement wherein the edge of paper, pasteboard, or other like material forms the surface of the same.

IVitness my hand this Sth day of June, A. Il

ELIJAH B. MA RTINDALE.

In presence of-4 CHAnLEs MAETINDALE, LYNN B. MARTINDALE. 

